An unseen narrator reminds Alpaca to \u201cpack-a a snack-a.\u201d Then Alpaca and Mom walk to the bus stop and wait. (Mom will be fine while Alpaca\u2019s at school, the narrator reassures readers.) At school, the sounds of footsteps going \u201cclick-clack-a\u201d reverberate through the hallways; Principal Quack-awelcomes everyone. Alpaca\u2019s a bit worried\u2014will the teacher, Miss Yak-a, be stern? No, indeed! Alpaca and the others locate their cubbies and hang their coats on a \u201crack-a.\u201d The rest of the day is eventful, with circle time, playtime, and art class; Alpaca drops a \u201cstack-a\u201d paint jars, but it\u2019s OK! \u201cMiss Yak-a has more.\u201d After a full day of playing, singing, learning the school rules, and working together with new friends, Alpaca heads home to enjoy dinner with Mom, take a bath, and listen to a story before hitting the \u201csack-a.\u201d This cheery story is a humorous vocabulary developer, with numerous ack-a words playfully running throughout the narrative; kids will be quick to shout out their own riffs on the word alpaca. The soothing tale will resonate with those starting school for the first time or returning to classrooms for another year of learning. A blend of hand-created and digital techniques, the illustrations are cheery, and the all-animal cast is anthropomorphized with quirky details, such as the snazzy red high-tops Alpaca and Miss Yak-a sport.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An unseen narrator reminds Alpaca to \u201cpack-a a snack-a.\u201d Then Alpaca and Mom walk to the bus stop and wait. (Mom will be fine while Alpaca\u2019s at school, the narrator reassures readers.) At school, the sounds of footsteps going \u201cclick-clack-a\u201d reverberate through the hallways; Principal Quack-awelcomes everyone. Alpaca\u2019s a bit worried\u2014will the teacher, Miss Yak-a, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}